An ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive.: 4  This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive...

incredibly annoying to me." Some verbs, called ambitransitive verbs, may entail objects but do not always require one. Such a verb may be used as intransitive...

An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...

to arrive. Verbs that can be used in an intransitive or transitive way are called ambitransitive verbs. In English, an example is the verb to eat; the...

A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request,suggestion, order, obligation...

varieties: agentive and patientive ambitransitives. Agentive ambitransitives (also called S=A ambitransitives) include verbs such as walk and knit because...

linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express...

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unergatives are truly intransitive, but ergatives are not. Ambitransitive verb Ergative verb Unaccusative verb Richards, Norvin. "Unergatives and Unaccusatives"...

terminology in general linguistics is not stable yet. Labile verbs can also be called "S=O-ambitransitive" (following R. M. W. Dixon's usage), or "ergative", following...

some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...

2015. Beyond the basics: Transitive, intransitive, ditransitive and ambitransitive verbs. Advocate. Online: https://commons.cu-portland.edu/cgi/viewcontent...

soda can is being crushed]. Note that this is not the same as an ambitransitive verb, which can be either intransitive or transitive (see criterion 4...

Reflexive verb Transitivity Ambitransitive verb – transitive equivalent of unergative Intransitive verb Transitive verb Unergative verb – opposite of unaccusative...

Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language...

often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...

In English, many anticausatives are of the class of "alternating ambitransitive verbs", where the alternation between transitive and intransitive forms...

also transitive verbs that cannot be transitivized. Examples are ngori 'to snore', bo 'to go', and vige 'to dry'. Ambitransitive verb stems can occur...

of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) This process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun...

A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument)...

An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent...

INF) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there...

negative particles and negative affixes, negative verbs play a role in various languages. The negative verb is used to implement a clausal negation. The negative...

In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain...

object-deletion verb is adopted from Biber et al. (1999:147). Such verbs are also called ambitransitive. Dependency trees similar to the ones produced here can be...

a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that...

compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector...

verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their...

Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished...

traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...